The world's fastest man isn't concerned that he ran the slowest final of his career two months before the Olympics.

Usain Bolt still won the Golden Spike race in Ostrava, Czech Republic, but the 10.04 was the slowest time he's ever run in a 100-meter final. His previous high was 10.03. The last time he ran over 10 seconds in any race was 2009.

There was a slight headwind at the race and it was a chilly evening, two factors which didn't help Bolt recover from his usual slow start.

"It's hard to explain," Bolt said after the race. "I don't really know what went wrong."

A few days later, he was more reflective.

"I explained to my coach that my legs were not feeling that energetic, probably through a lack of sleep and not enough food," he told reporters while in Rome preparing for this week's Diamond League meet.  "Since I got here I've been trying to get a lot more sleep and eating better so everything is seeming to be on a better track. You never have a good race every time you run, you

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Maria Sharapova took the court Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Paris to begin her 2012 French Open against Alexandra Cadantu. She walked off 48 minutes later, dropping a double bagel on the young Romanian. It was the fourth such scoreline of Sharapova's career. Interestingly, the previous three had all come against American players, including that famous 2005 drubbing of world No. 1 Lindsay Davenport at Indian Wells.

What does the stats from a 6-0, 6-0 match look like? Not that much different than a 6-2, 6-2 match, to be honest.

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Those are the first four stats listed on the official Roland Garros site and they provide no indication of the drubbing that took place. It takes a little longer to get to those numbers.

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What's most amazing about those numbers aren't Cadantu's zero winners. It's that she actually had three break-point chances against the dominant Sharapova.

Alex Bogomolov Jr. was down, but hardly out. The Russian-born American ex-pat was facing match point in Monday's first-round match against Frenchman Arnaud Clement. Yet it was on his serve and he had seen his 34-year-old opponent survive a similar situation an hour earlier.

And then the cramps came. While preparing to serve to stay in the match at 4-5 in the fifth set, Bogomolov's leg cramps became too much to bear. He tried to walk them out for a minute before quitting on match point. Clement had to quiet French fans who booed Bogomolov's decision:

"I couldn't bend [my leg]," Bogomolov said after the match. "I couldn't walk. I didn't want to risk a potential ligament damage or something. And you can't get a trainer for that."

Even with a reasonable answer like that, the reflex is to do what the French fans did and question Bogomolov's decision. "Why couldn't he have hit two serves into the net and lost with dignity?" Would that have been a more sportsmanlike way to lose?

There's a

When Ryan Harrison says he didn't mean to throw his racquet in the direction of a ball boy, he's telling the truth. When he says he didn't mean to throw his racquet at all, well, then we are getting into parsing, technicalities and what the definition of "throw" is.

The young American had just failed to convert two set points on his serve against France's Gilles Simon in a first-round match at the French Open. When he ended up getting broken to lose the game, Harrison flipped his racquet backward in frustration. It happened to land near a ball boy who was running onto the court.

"How is that racquet abuse?" Harrison asked the chair. The camera cut away before the rest of his statement, but Sports Illustrated's Bryan Graham heard the whole thing. "The racket slid," Harrison said. "I don't give a [expletive]. That isn't racket abuse."

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While the announcers on the feed above seemed to agree, an unlikely source

Bethanie Mattek-Sands upset No. 12 Sabine Lisicki on Monday. (Getty Images)American women are perfect in Paris. Through two days of the French Open, the U.S. is 10-for-10 in first-round matches, with Serena Williams and Jamie Hampton hoping to make it a pristine opening round on Tuesday. Busted Racquet looks at each American victory on the red clay of Roland Garros.

Venus Williams def. Paula Ormaechea (ARG), 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 --- The elder Williams sister was playing her first Grand Slam match since withdrawing from last year's U.S. Open while feeling the effects of her recently diagnosed Sjogren's syndrome. After a sluggish start, the 31-year-old shook off the rust and benefited from some shaky play by the young Argentinian.

Melanie Oudin def. Johanna Larsson (SWE), 6-3, 6-3 -- Remember her? Still not 21, Oudin had a precipitous fall after her runs to the fourth round of Wimbledon and the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open made her a national star in 2009. She was No. 31 in the rankings in April 2010 and then bottomed out at No. 370 two years later. Entering Roland

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Two of women's tennis famed power couples -- Caroline Wozniacki/Rory McIlroy (L) and Maria Kirilenko/Alex Ovechkin -- released dueling photographs of themselves at Parisian landmarks this weekend before the French Open. OK, they weren't actually dueling, but in the spirit of competition, we'll treat them as such.

Historic landmark

Ovechilenko: Arc de Triomphe

McIliacki: Eiffel Tower

Pose

Kovechkin: High school prom

McWozzilroy: Two brahs posing for a picture before a charity golf tournament.

Parisian fashion choices

Mariander: Sheer pink skirt, white shorts/Marty McFly Jr. from "Back to the Future II"

Roro: Frat party/waiting tables

Where the men should have been

Ovechkin: NHL Eastern conference finals (lost in Game 7 of previous round)

McIlroy: BMW Championship (missed cut)

Traffic safety

Kirivechkin: Since they appear to be standing in the middle of two-way traffic on the Champs-Elysees, we'll give them a failing grade.

McIlroz: N/A

Where they probably had dinner later

Alexandria:

In her first Grand Slam match since revealing she suffers from an autoimmune disorder, Venus Williams held off an early charge from teenager Paula Ormaechea to win 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 and advance to the second round at the French Open.

The win was nothing new for the 31-year-old Williams; she's 53-3 in her career in opening-round matches at Grand Slams. With such steady play, her early matches at major tend to be more notable for her fashions rather than her forehand. By that measure, her Sunday in Paris was a double victory.

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Venus took to Court Phillipe Chatrier in a flattering white dress with colored, asymmetrical stripes. It's a design from her clothing line, eleVen.

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Venus made worldwide headlines during her last visit to Roland Garros when she wore a racy can-can dress that looked more like a nightie than a Grand Slam outfit.

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(Getty Images)All you need to know about the state of Andy Roddick's game can be summed up by this: He lost a first-round match at the French Open on Sunday to a 30-year-old, 89th-ranked journeyman with a career 1-9 record at the tournament and it barely registered as a surprise.

The 29-year-old American was defeated on the first day of play in Paris by Nicolas Mahut, of Wimbledon marathon fame, 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2. It was his first opening-round loss at a major in five years.

Roddick never looked comfortable on Court Suzanne Lenglen against the crafty Frenchman. His footwork was sloppy, leading to uncharacteristic weakness on serve. Mahut had seven break-point opportunities in the match and converted all seven.

"You can't fake it out here," he told reporters. "I move horrendously out here. My first step is just so bad on this stuff. I feel like I'm always shuffling or hopping or not stopping or something."

An early departure from Roland Garros is nothing new for Roddick. He's made it out of the